house

Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1800, on a corner site with entrance windbreak, and single-bay single-storey lean-to recessed end bay to right. Refenestrated, pre-1994. Hipped roof (continuing as lean-to section over end bay to right) with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Painted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction having sections of mud wall construction. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1994. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed aluminium door, pre-1994. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site with painted rendered boundary wall to site.

Occupying a prominent corner position in the centre of Corluddy a modest-scale cottage represents an important element of the late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century vernacular heritage on account of the presence of attributes including the construction in locally-sourced materials, the windbreak, the thatched roof, and so on.